Employer and employer association matters in Australia in 2020

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ID21349231
AuthorsLouise Thornthwaite (0000-0001-5032-1791, Macquarie University, corresponding author), Peter Sheldon (0000-0002-6981-2141, UNSW Sydney)
Year2021
Volume63
Issue3
Pages357-376
Publication date2021-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Industrial Relations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1856 • E-ISSN: 1472-9296
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00221856211000406
OpenAlexW3155719650
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited4

The emphasis of employers and employer associations, when 2020 began, was largely business as usual. With the pandemic’s advent, employers and associations reoriented some industrial relations activity, which encouraged cooperation while also highlighting sharp divisions. As the year progressed, however, it became increasingly apparent that the federal government’s responses to the pandemic provided unanticipated opportunities for the employer movement to push intensively their long-expressed desires for changes to the institutional structures of industrial relations, and hence also bargaining and other processes. This article examines these and other activities which preoccupied employers and their associations in 2020 while also analysing some broader environmental, social and governance challenges affecting employer groups, which impact on their purpose and place within the employer movement more generally

Association (psychology) · Collective bargaining · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Corporate governance · Economics · Freedom of association · Government (linguistics) · Labor relations · Labour economics · Management · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social partners · Sociology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Industrial relations · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Psychology · Industrial Relations

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